Hundreds protest in northeast Fresno against recent Border Patrol arrests in Central Valley

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- After borderline patrol agents were spotted crossed the Central Valley and dozens of migrants were detained, respective ample protests are present opening to popular up crossed the region.

On Sunday, hundreds gathered successful Northeast Fresno to amusement their solidarity for the undocumented community.

A oversea of Mexican and American flags lined the streets adjacent Blackstone and Nees successful Northeast Fresno Sunday. Drivers successful enactment honking their horns arsenic protestors changed chants of 'Si Se Puede.'

This comes aft 78 undocumented migrants were detained by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents crossed Kern and Fresno Counties past week.

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Gabriel Viarolin, a farmworker from Madera, connected the picket line, helium says due to the fact that helium and his assemblage bash not merit to unrecorded successful fear.

"How americium I going to permission successful the morning? I enactment successful Madera, and I heard they were connected Seventh Street successful Madera. I transverse that thoroughfare each day. How americium I going to transverse that thoroughfare again? I'm going to enactment location instead," says Gabriel Viarolin, Madera Farmworker.

Viarolin tells Action News he's proceeding galore farmworkers are not readying to not instrumentality to enactment connected Monday.

"The lone happening that's going to hap is that we're not going to spell to work, and I deliberation that's going to impact the economy," says Viarolin.

The cardinal vale is astatine the forefront of the migration debate. A akin protestation was held successful Bakersfield conscionable days ago. Organizers successful Fresno accidental their connection is the same.

"We provender this state truthful they're virtually biting the hands that provender them. Don't wound the hands that provender you," says Flor Martinez Zaragosa, Social Media Activist.

The assemblage grew by the hr arsenic connection dispersed online. Social Media activistic Flor Martinez Zaragosa traveled from Bakersfield, calling connected her hundreds of thousands of followers to articulation the movement.

"Right now, societal media is precise progressive successful this question and that's precisely what we're looking to bash due to the fact that we request to utilize these tools that we didn't person earlier america that Cesar Chavez and MLK didn't person earlier us. We request to utilize it present much than ever," says Martinez Zaragosa.

According to the Border Patrol, each of those detained had transgression histories, but authorities leaders are contradicting that claim, successful a property league Saturday, saying workplace workers were besides among those targeted.

"We are not going to beryllium backmost anymore. All the youth, each these radical that are present contiguous and each these radical crossed the state are going to combat backmost against deportation, against household separations, due to the fact that capable has been enough," says Martinez Zaragosa.

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